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Partitioning for Performance in a Sharding Database System
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding...
InfluxDB is 5x Faster vs. MongoDB for Time Series Workloads
This blog post has been updated on November 17, 2022 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB v1.8.10 and MongoDB v5.0.6. To provide you with the latest findings, this blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one...
Scaling Throughput and Performance in a Sharding Database System
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic — or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical...
Getting Started with Fluentd for Data Collection
This article was written by Thinus Swart. Scroll down for the author’s bio. Fluentd is an open source data collector capable of retrieving and receiving event data from several sources and then filtering, buffering, and routing data to different compatible destinations....
How Time Series Data Empowers Telcos to Stay Competitive
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Time series databases can help telecommunications companies become more reliable, efficient and productive. The telecommunications industry is undergoing rapid change as a handful of new technologies...
TL;DR Python, Pandas Dataframes, and InfluxDB
InfluxDB has over a dozen client libraries so developers can get started more easily and program in the language they’re most comfortable with. One of our most popular options is the Python client library. InfluxDB supports not just Python but pandas,...
Time Series Forecasting with PyTorch and InfluxDB
This article was written by Smriti Satyan. Scroll down for the author’s bio. Time series data (also known as time-stamped data) refers to a collection of observations (data points) measured over time. When plotted on a graph, one of the axes...
Congratulations to the Third Annual InfluxDays Community Awards Winners
Every year since I started at InfluxData, it has been my honor to recognize those community members who have made outstanding contributions to both the InfluxDB community and to our products over the past year. It’s always amazing to see people...
How to Reduce Telegraf Binary Size with a Customized Telegraf Agent
Is Telegraf too big for your device? Too many plugins in one binary getting you down? Let me introduce you to the Telegraf custom builder – the new tool for reducing Telegraf’s overall memory and disk footprint. In this blog, we...
InfluxDays Recap – Paul Dix and the Journey of InfluxDB
According to the old adage, life’s a journey not a destination. The same can be said for software. It’s unlikely that any developer would ever say that something they built was truly done. There are always bugs to squash, features to...